Gunning Down Romance

I can tell just by reading that the writer was going through a bad time. Obviously a significant relationship is completely gone, and he's feeling the anger and resentment that most do when something happy leaves you forever.

yes, this is definitely a very angry song.

Its true in some ways though, like the love is a chemical reaction thing....

This is one of Savage Garden's most powerful and moving songs. Not their first, but quite possibly their last. It has a dark, cold, bleak, and miserable feel to it. You can literally feel Darren's heartbreaking desperation to hold on to a single spark of something pure and good. He cries out "Love don't leave me" several times, each time crooning it devastatingly. This song feels as if he is clinging desperately to one small hope that this incredible pain won't leave him jaded forever. He knows his marriage is over and the sad part is that he doesn't seem to be dwelling on that. His pain and sorrow in this song seems to be geared more toward his losing faith in love itself and he's trying so hard not to give up on it. Even through all the jaded and bitter words and lines, you can see that he still has hope; that he's still trying not to fall apart, and that's what makes "GDR" so incredibly moving. You can literally see how strong his will is throughout this song. In the beginning he is bitter and angry and in the end it seems he's reached a revelation. All through the song he takes you through this dark and cold journey and then at the end he shows you this light and all at once you feel warm. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's the best I can describe it. It's as if through this song, he's recieved enlightenment.

Definately an underappreciated song. Most people think it's an angry rant of a song, but I think it's Darren's version of therapy and you can see his changes and progress throughout it.

i luv this song~ it kinda gives me a creepy feeling tho. it sounds like darren is in a lot of pain, as in just going thru a really bad time, he sings it with a lot of emotion

I'm suspecting that he wrote this shortly after his wife and him divorced, and he says he's a romantic at heart, and he says he's gunning it down as he sees it as doing him harm. but yes he sounds hurt and angry.

this is a great song ;]

wait a sec.... darren was married? never heard that before! Soz im a big fan of SG but i can never find any information on them in the UK!

Anyways, bout this song......... i didn't like it first but then when i actually listened to the lyrics and the power of it, i absolutely loved it!

I positively adore this song, it's definately in my top3 SG songs. It's dark and just different from so many of their other tunes but completely believable at the same time and they can pull the style off well. I wish they would have written more in this direction.

I don't think it's about one specific breakup/event in that sense. But it works incredibly well as just this overall feeling you get after thinking one too many times about the bad side of love, how it burns you. Eventually you get bitter and start to thinking what is love? You tear it down to the most basic unfeeling level which is that it's technically just 'chemical reactions in your brain'. He's begging love to come rescue him from these thoughts.

<i>I'm gunning down romance It never did a thing for me But heartache and misery Ain't nothing but a tragedy</i>

This song gives me the shivers. I know what it's like to feel like this. Amazing stuff.

And yeah Darren was married to a woman named Colby for a period of time. They were college sweethearts I believe?

this is probably one of savage gardens darkest songs, it's so emotional, like all their songs, and i'm pretty sure it is about Darren breaking up with his wife. the first few times i heard it i never really appreciated it fully, but over the past few years, it's meant more and more to me, i supose, now that i'm older i can relate to it more, well, that's my two cents anyway